Службите за Константин-Кирил Философ и националната идентичност на българите (ХIII–ХVII в.)
The Services to Constantine-Cyril the Philosopher and the National Identity of the Bulgarians (13th–17th Cc)

Summary/Abstract: The review made in the article of the hymnographic works dedicated to Constantine-Cyril the Philosopher as examples of a manifestation of national identity shows that among the Southern Slavs the idea about the Bulgarian basis of Slavonic written culture, an idea that revealed itself for the first time in hymnal poetry in a copy of the original service to Cyril in the Skopje menaion of the 13th c., continued to be popular later as well. In the 16th–17th cc. this idea spread across the Balkans and through the revision of the Service to John Chrysostom, which turned it into a service to Cyril, and through the "glory" that was presented, the first-apostle of the Slavs and his work became a distinctive feature of the national selfconfidence not only of the Bulgarians.

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